The apostrophe war, sentence 12
Modern style guides write decades as "the 1990s" with no apostrophe; in "the '90s" the apostrophe shows the missing "19".
Who acts: Modern style guides, apostrophe · What happens: write, show · To what, where: missing 19
This is a sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Modern style guides, apostrophe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guides | amod |
| 2 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guides | compound |
| 3 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 write | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 1990s | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 1990s | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 1990s | det |
| 9 | 1990s | 1990s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 write | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 1990s | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 apostrophe | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 apostrophe | det |
| 13 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shows | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 90s | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 90s | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 90s | det |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 90s | punct |
| 19 | 90s | 90s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 23 shows | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 90s | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apostrophe | det |
| 22 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shows | nsubj |
| 23 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 19 | det |
| 25 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 19 | amod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 19 | punct |
| 27 | 19 | 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shows | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 19 | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | Modern style guides | decade | as the 1990s; with no apostrophe | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as 1990s=Attribute | |||
| 2 | show | present | the apostrophe | the missing 19 | in the 90s | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent 19=Patient in 90s=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:12.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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